Category: Teaching Strategy

Most students dread quizzes. Especially in a physics class. It usually involves sitting for a long time, recalling all those lessons and equations that you probably have forgotten. One fitting description for this experience:quizzes are boring. Because of that perception towards quizzes, students tend to…

THE ELEMENTS in the periodic table are cleverly arranged according to their atomic numbers and properties. You will find out that you can predict the properties of an element by looking at its placement in the periodic table. Metals, metalloids,and non-metals also have their designated…

Substances may also be classified into acids and bases. In the laboratory, we identified which common household substances are acidic or basic by using blue and red litmus paper. We tested the following substances: toothpaste vinegar calamansi detergent powder chlorine soda The substances were dissolved…

As a culminating lesson, I held an interactive lecturette with my students, where we summarized what we have learned the first two chapters of the Learner’s Material for Grade 7 Science. We first recalled the big ideas behind the previous laboratory activities from properties of…

IN THIS post I wrote a narrative of my presentation during the GDays General Santos held at SM City General Santos on May 3, 2014, organized by Google Business Group GenSan. Here is the presentation: When I decided to become a teacher, I vowed to…

The following topics are applications of the topics we have recently discussed in class. What you will do is to come up with a short video featuring 10 Important Things that People Should know about these topics: Group I – The Telephone and Cellular Communication…

IT’S ALWAYS good to see my students working their brains out to use what they have learned in the classroom to build something. After we have discussed rotational motion, and work, power, and energy, I asked my students to build a compound machine, with three…

ONE OF my favorite sources of learning materials online is PhET, which is run Colorado University. Here is another activity I designed using a simulation available on the PhET website in teaching basic circuits. Electricity is one interesting topic in Physics because it is a…

ANOTHER INTERESTING topic in physics is projectile motion. It is a little more challenging than horizontal motion and free fall, because, in fact, it involves both. Projectiles move vertically and horizontally at the same time. If we look around, a lot of things move that…

JULY IS the National Disaster Consciousness Month in the Philippines. National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council work with other agencies in promoting awareness on emergencies and disasters. The efforts are usually focused on typhoons and flashfloods. Earthquakes, too, are a potential hazard to our…